Singular points of the Wigner caustic and affine equidistants of planar curves

DOI10.1007/S00574-019-00141-4zbMATH Open1440.53003arXiv1810.04618OpenAlexW2897603741WikidataQ128101948 ScholiaQ128101948MaRDI QIDQ2174203FDOQ2174203

Authors: Wojciech Domitrz, Michał Zwierzyński 

Publication date: 21 April 2020

Published in: Bulletin of the Brazilian Mathematical Society. New Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we study singular points of the Wigner caustic and affine $lambda$--equidistants of planar curves based on shapes of these curves. We generalize the Blaschke-S"uss theorem on the existence of antipodal pairs of a convex curve.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04618

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zbMATH Keywords

singularitiesaffine equidistantsWigner causticplanar curvessemiclassical dynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04) Affine differential geometry (53A15) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Critical points of functions and mappings on manifolds (58K05)

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